I have never met an editor, from print or broadcast, who did not want the staff of his or her newsroom to reflect the diversity of the communities it served.
And I’ve never met an editor who claimed they had fully achieved it.
It is, I have no doubt, one of the reasons for the decline in influence of the UK regional press, particularly larger metro titles, Our communities went through a fundamental change – and we didn’t.
But my real fear is that the situation will get worse, not better.
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